Healing from Illness

While there are many traditional Jewish prayers for healing, the feminist movement empowered first women, and then men and women, to create many more prayers and ceremonies which spoke to the specific situations in which they found themselves. The complexity of modern medicine has added to this need for prayers for tests, prayers before surgery, prayers after chemotherapy and for each chemo session, etc. In addition, several writers on ritualwell have created ceremonies to celebrate an important anniversary in relationship to their disease.

Sometimes the situation calls for a few words, like a mantra, which can be said on facing a difficult decision or a treatment. Sometimes, we need a full-blown ceremony among friends and loved ones. And sometimes we need a healing service, where we join with others who are in need of healing. You can find all of these on ritualwell.

This section of the site is far from complete; rituals or prayers you create would be welcome additions.